Laura Thomson

SVP of Engineering at @lumosidentity. Board of Trustees, ISOC. Prev Fastly; Mozilla; ISRG Board; author. She/her.

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

I'm also rotating off the Internet Society board this week. I couldn't have said this better than Ted.

Carrying the Light of the Internet Forward: A Farewell Message from Board Chair Ted Hardie: https://t.co/gWDoAGPDeK

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@Forestieto To me it's like saying self driving cars remove the need for freeways

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents are really cool. But the effect on edge cloud stock prices (Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai) makes absolutely zero sense. The lack of understanding of the value of these innovators is remarkable to me.

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

This time of year, and maybe especially this year, I think about @jdotp. Rest in power, friend.

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @JoeBeOne]

"The US Makes a Big Step Toward Better Routing Security" by Ryan Polk @internetsociety https://t.co/SENbKtH1mT

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

On a totally non-work related note, clock drift is the devil. (Robot chicken coop, I'm looking at you.)

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

#hugops to all the folks at @Cloudflare.

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

How we protect against DDoS:

https://t.co/7NOCg2TGkV

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@jhalderm @bcrypt @mholt6 I think this was at BEL

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@bcrypt @mholt6 @jhalderm That sounds right, will also see if I can find it

[Fastly @fastly]

Today, Laura Thomson, SVP of Engineering here at Fastly, reminds us all to honor & celebrate the women who have historically shaped the #technology we use today, & those that are building for tomorrow in the @sdtimes. Fastly thanks you. 💪 #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/aMKr9BLH5V

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

NGL, this gif is my very favorite thing from our investor day yesterday. @fastly

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@ekr____ @CDCgov Congratulations! They're lucky to have you. Sounds like a fascinating role.

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

Today, I am super proud of our team for helping build a better internet for all.

[Fastly @fastly]

📢 📢 Users don’t have to choose b/w protecting their privacy & enjoying the internet! ⚖️
🤝 Meet Fastly OHTTP Relay, which allows you to work with @googlechrome's FLEDGE service to receive critical request data from end users w/o the identifying metadata. https://t.co/WlZC7e75rI

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

I went digging in my desk drawer for something. Overcome with nostalgia. Nothing will ever top "Evil Genius" as a job title.

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@IanColdwater Ohai

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

OH: "Their love language is well, actually"

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

Dammit, Phil

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@robtreat2 @pquerna Oh yep, HR spikes for a bunch of things. Getting up in the morning is dramatic

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

Spot where the pager went off (heart rate)

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@noahsussman We were chatting about it at dinner and I figured I should go and look at what my watch had to say about a recent incident

[Laura Thomson @lxt]

@noahsussman Yes